KILLER-DAD CHRIS WATTS’ WIFE FAMILY SUFFERS EVIL ONLINE HATE
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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4.2 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Shanann Watts' father, Frank Rzucek, and her brother, Frankie Rzucek, have spoken out about facing years of relentless "evil" online hate, harassment, and conspiracy theories following the 2018 murders of Shanann and her children. Family members have reported being the targets of malicious rumors, victim-blaming, and threatening messages. Trolls have distorted Shanann's character and falsely claimed the family was involved in the killings from a relationship born out of a random friend request. Two years later, she marries Chris Watts and moves from North Carolina to Colorado. Eight years later, she and her children are dead.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.8 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:11.6 | I will never forget the so-called killer dad, Chris Watts. |
| 0:17.3 | He murdered his beautiful pregnant wife, Shanan Watts, pregnant with her son, Nico, and his two little girls, Bella and Celeste. |
| 0:26.8 | But now, another twist of the knife in the backs of Shanan's family. |
| 0:33.5 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:37.9 | That's right. Shanan Watts's father says his family has faced years of, quote, evil online hate after Chris Watts murdered his daughter. |
| 0:50.9 | Shanan's dad, Frank Roochick, says conspiracy theories distorted and twisted his daughter's life, falsely implicating the family in the killings. |
| 1:02.8 | But what can be done about it? |
| 1:05.8 | Let's have a reality check. |
| 1:07.7 | This is what really happened. |
| 1:09.7 | I'm concerned about a friend of mine. I dropped her off at her house at two in the morning |
| 1:14.6 | last night because we were out of town together and we were on the way back to the |
| 1:17.5 | smart issues and she's pregnant. And I haven't been able to get a friend for this morning. |
| 1:23.0 | Did you tell your mother-in-law that she went to a friend's today? |
| 1:27.5 | Uh-huh. Yeah. Who's what a friend's today? Mm-hmm. |
| 1:28.4 | Yeah? |
| 1:29.3 | Who's what friend? |
| 1:30.8 | That's what friend? |
| 1:32.1 | Who was she supposed to go to? |
| 1:35.1 | That's all she told me. |
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